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@Kazman I'm not sure if I've done it or not. Does it feel like awareness came to a point of perfect focus or order?

@How to be wise My definition of the 'experience' (if you can call it an experience) of not knowing is when the mind comes to a full stop and there is nothing there. Zero movement of mind. A mind without content. Only awareness remains. Totally empty awareness. How do you do it? It happens on it's own at first through practice. Then once you've hit on it enough times you can return to it at will. You shut off knowing by shutting off your identity.

@MiracleMan Your True nature.

@MiracleMan@Leo Gura Just wanted to add something that relates to Leo's latest video about distraction. Wouldn't an undistracted- disciplined mind better serve all aspects of life? Catching the ox is about how hard you have to work to gain mastery of your true nature. It’s only when you start disciplining the mind that you realize how crazy you are! Your mind is constantly wandering off and getting distracted. You have to work hard to focus and develop discipline.

@Kazman All a great read. But what you said here really hit home. I look around me now and all I see is false aspects of me. I'm realizing this same thing today especially reading the Ox' herding picture -stories and I'm rethinking everything in my life and practice. Probably a good thing to do from time to time. So this part of the ox story shown me something that wasn't quite correct in my practice. Just wanted to share. If you see yourself as separate from your true nature then you’ll try to act on it from outside and make your mind be still. This is impossible so you’ll never succeed. But that’s okay because your true nature is naturally still. You don’t need to struggle. Everything is as it is. You can let it be, and let your mind be, and the disturbances and ripples in the water will slowly disappear.

@The Monk Are you familiar with 'A glimpse of the ox's tail' in Zen? https://jessicadavidson.co.uk/2015/10/12/ox-herding-pictures-first-glimpse/

@Martin123 I'll gladly take whatever it can do for me.

@Martin123 Thanks! I started to read it but got interrupted. Yea i'll check out the rest of it. I was wondering if Kundalinli may have healing effects. The spinal cord in particular. I have some problems in that area. Maybe it could help me with that. I'm willing to give it a shot.

@Peace and Love If you and your friend start the TM program, let me know what you think about it.

@Arkandeus Sorry, I didn't include your name. Same question to you too.

@Preetom @Martin123 @Franz just to throw this out there, I've never experienced this energy. I'm not dismissing it, I'm just wondering why that is. Any clues? I can't say I've ever really tried to access it either. Could that be it? I hear about blockages often but I try to be totally open to whatever arises. Wouldn't it have come on it's own at some point? Or not necessarily? Any suggestions? I'll give it a try.

It wasn't the topic headline per se but more this sentence that made me think of what Max Tegmark said in the documentary. It sounded a lot like what you were describing.

@Dodo Funny you should say this. I'm feeling particularly multi dimensional today for some reason. Maybe something is in the air, so to speak? If you get a chance, check out what Max Tegnark says here @47:00 Maybe there is a truth to it.

@Ilya I've read stories about that too. But what enlightened person would release his body before it's intended time, Besides, where could he go when he's already everywhere?

@ajasatya@Extreme Z7 We're all here to help each other and in a positive way ONLY. Others also benefit from any constructive advise.

@Dodo You nailed it!

@naive13 The sense self/ego started when the consciousness 'I am' first appeared. But what is it that witnessed this birth? What where you before you were born? To quote Nisargadatta: " 8 days before your conception" That would be the only self to practice strengthening. If you could even call it a self.

@Marinus Digging deep! You'll mature quickly with that. Keep going!

@Why? Detachment is to- Manifest Plainness Embrace Simplicity Reduce Selfishness Have few Desires -Lao Tzu

@Peace and Love If she truly believes TM (specifically) will help her with the PTSD, I'd say she should go for it. Mainly because she herself suggested it. That in itself may be giving her a feeling of personal control over the PTSD. I don't know this person, but hearing a little back story, she may not trust other ppl now or their suggestions no matter how well intended and effective. She may reject it straight out or have doubt about it in the back of her mind, therefore rendering it ineffective. The bottom line here, maybe a little bit of a placebo effect is just what is needed. Plus the meditation of course. Just something to consider. Best wishes.

What is the substance of Reality? I've always hoped physics (super string theory) would answer that question someday. But it seems that the more answers physicists get, the more the questions arise. So as realizing the futility and paradox of attempting to answer such a question- 'Silver bells and cockle shells' is just as good an answer as any.

@5driedgrams The problem is most people are so deeply invested in life only they dare not look beyond it. Sadly enough, here is their story.

@Ilya When the master is teaching your only job is to be listening with a still mind and not be thinking of questions. If you listen quietly to every word spoken you should have no questions. Also, the master may feel your not ready to hear the answer to a question you may have asked. When your ready to hear they will tell you without you asking and not a moment before. Anybody can ask the big questions, but not everybody is ready to hear the big answers. It has nothing to do with their emotional mastery. It has to do with your emotional mastery. Imagine if everyone in the group starting throwing their monkey mind questions at the master. Shit would get nowhere fast! Do you really think that a spiritual master is in some way the same as a university professor? Or should abide by the same procedure of teaching that YOU expect? Spiritually is not a black and white, yes or no type of discipline. It's just not taught that way. I'm certainly no master by any stretch of the imagination, and yet I feel that by answering your questions here I have done you a disservice in a way. I can see quite clearly now why those rules of silence are in place. I never really thought about it much before. But now that you've bought up the question, the answer has become quite obvious. And I'm sure if you would have thought about it without asking here, you would have come to the same conclusion on your own.

@Ragib Ashraf Absolutely correct. Having an idea or concept about it can often lead to looking in all the wrong places. It's over here but you may spend years looking over there. Or looking right past it even. Nothing wrong with the looking per se. But the looking should have no set direction. This may be another way to put it, 'It hides in every shadow'. By that I mean, just as physical objects create shadows, so do concepts. If you have some concept, don't look directly at it, look at it's shadow.